I own Deep Exploration and MOI3D. MOI is by far the better option. It produces a very nice mesh and you have a lot of control over what's produced. Deep Exploration isn't Deep Exploration any more. I forget what it's called but it's owned by a huge corporation that renamed it something like Visual Enterprise. Unless you do a ton of CAD conversions of all sorts of different formats, it's a lot of money to pay (I believe the CAD edition is an extra expense) for a file converter.
Plus MOI is a fantastic modeler. -Paul On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Eric Turman <[email protected]> wrote: > Deep exploration is great but $$$$ we ended up having to use polytrans as > well. MOI3D looks very interesting if it works well though, thanks Ludo. > > -=Eric > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mirko Jankovic <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Also deep exploration supports bunch of formats and converts really >> nicely as well >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Byron Nash <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We deal with receiving CAD files and ended up having to buy a license of >>> Polytrans. It works pretty well. Before that I tried Rhino demo and some >>> other free options but always wasted tons of time with poor results. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:15 PM, olivier jeannel < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> Next week I shall receive a mecanical pieces generated with Solidworks. >>>> Because I'm dealing with an agency, they might won't be able to send an obj >>>> or fbx file. >>>> They propose various formats : >>>> Assemblage or Assembly (.asm) >>>> Part (.prt) >>>> Parasolid (.x_t) >>>> Iges (.igs) >>>> Step AP203 or AP214 (.stp) >>>> IFC 2x3 (.ifc) >>>> ACIS (.sat) >>>> STL (.stl) >>>> VRML (.wrl) >>>> Universal3D (.u3d) >>>> 3Dxml (.3dxml) >>>> Catia Graphics (.cgr) >>>> >>>> So my question is, what format should I ask and what software would you >>>> recomend to open and save it in a classic polymesh format ? (preferably >>>> free...) >>>> >>>> I have an old Deep Exploration, I was thinking giving it a try. But if >>>> someone has a cool winning format + software to advice... >>>> >>>> Thank you ! >>>> >>>> Olivier >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > > > > > -=T=- >
